Improved cranberry-gatherer



(J. TEACHER.- CRANBERRY GATHERE-B.

No. 48,136. Patented June 6; 1865.

, dle by which the UNITED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES THACHE 0 YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASsIenoRTo IM- SELF ND CEo. SHOVE, OF AME PLACE, AND ASSIGNED ft-SAID EAC ER To LUTHER w. CLARKE, 0F BOSTON, MA SACHUSETT IM PROV E'D CRANBERRY-GATH ERER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 18,136, dated June 6, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES THACHER, of

the town and county of Barnstable, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Oranberry-Gatherer;-and I do hereby declare the same to be fully describedin the following specificatiom and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 [denotes atop v1ew, Fi g. 2 a sideelevation, Fig.- 3a longitudinal section, and

Fig. 4 a front-end view, of it.

,or toothed portionof it, and a grid", grate, or .sieve, B, composed of a series of parallel bars,

b b b, disposed at short distances from one another. There may be an elongated aperture, 0, made through the rear end of the receiver and near to its upper edge, and of sufficient size to enable a person to pass his hand into the saidopening and grasp tbatpartpf the end which is'near to it, such part serving as a hanreceiver may be operated by a person.

' A vertical rake or comb, G, is arran ged within the receiver A and at its front end, and is supported by 'two arms, old, which extend backward from it within the receiver, and are so connected to the sides of the receiver by pins or hinges as to enable the comb to be moved in the arc of a circle and either toward or away from the teeth of the bottom of thereceiver, the comb being providedwith' a handle e.

This fruit-gatherer is specially intended for a the gathering of cranberries from their vines,

although it is possible that it may be used in a similar manner for the, gathering of other kinds of fruit. In employing it for such'puu pose the comb should be raised ofi' the teeth of the bottom or be thrown back into the position indicated by the dotted lines in. Fig. 3. This having been done, the receiver is :to be pushed against the vines in such manner as to cause its teeth to pass between them. Afterward the comb should be moved forward.- into its vertical position on the bottointeeth. Thev whole apparatus should next be drawn backward, so as to strip the berries from the vines.

"By tipping the apparatus the berries may be thrown upon the grid or sieve, so as to sift from them any extraneous matters.

I claim as my invention.-

1. The combination of the holding-comb G with the receiver A, provided with teeth, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the grate or sieve B,

the holding-comb O, and the receiver 4, provided with teeth, substantially as described.

.' OHS. TEACHER.

Witnesses:

WM. 1?. DAVIS, GEORGE OTIS. 

